Definition of thrusting

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Thrusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thrus.

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Smallsword :: Smallsword (n.) A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century..
Rapier :: Rapier (n.) A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting..
Protrusive :: Protrusive (a.) Thrusting or impelling forward; as, protrusive motion..
Tiebeam :: Tiebeam (n.) A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof..
Plunge :: Plunge (n.) The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge..
Butt :: Butt (v. t.) To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.
Depulsion :: Depulsion (n.) A driving or thrusting away.
Thrusting :: Thrusting (n.) The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey..
Press :: Press (v.) To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd..
Thrusting :: Thrusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thrus.
Stamp :: Stamp (v. i.) To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward..
Thrusting :: Thrusting (n.) The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made..
Detrusion :: Detrusion (n.) The act of thrusting or driving down or outward; outward thrust.
Exclusion :: Exclusion (n.) The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded..
Cram :: Cram (v. t.) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people..
Immission :: Immission (n.) The act of immitting, or of sending or thrusting in; injection; -- the correlative of emission..
Empalement :: Empalement (n.) A putting to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
Trusion :: Trusion (n.) The act of pushing or thrusting.
Tilt :: Tilt (v. i.) To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances..
Infix :: Infix (v. t.) To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in; as, to infix a sting, spear, or dart..
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